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Aficamten (Cytokinetics) in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and elevated LV outflow tract.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force no longer recommends aspirin for primary CVD prevention in adults aged 60 years or older, according to a draft recommendation issued today.

Aficamten, a novel selective cardiac myosin inhibitor, was associated with improvements in HF symptoms and hemodynamics at 10 weeks, according to a phase 2 study presented at the Heart Failure Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting.

A 40-year-old white woman was referred to the Tufts Medical Center neuro-ophthalmology service for 3 weeks of blurred peripheral vision, pulse-synchronous tinnitus and headaches.

The proportion of total energy that children and adolescents consumed from ultra-processed foods rose nearly 6 percentage points during a recent 20-year period, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Patients who ate at least three servings of whole grains per day had smaller increases in waist circumference, BP and fasting glucose concentration than patients who ate less than half a serving per day, data show.

Cytokinetics announced a phase 2 trial of its novel cardiac myosin inhibitor in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was successful.

In this study, nearly one-third of patients receiving in-center hemodialysis had higher blood pressure at home than their recorded in-center, pre-dialysis BP and higher left ventricle mass index, suggesting a lack of treatment.

Trends in COVID-19 prevalence and mortality were similar among patients on home dialysis and those on in-center dialysis, with changes throughout the pandemic mirroring that of the general population in the United States.

Erosive hand osteoarthritis tends to target older adults and women with preexisting OA, and is associated with severe articular structural damage and radiographic progression, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.